Susan had already fought and argued and refused to let Lauren go, and by this point he was quietly pouting and ignoring his brother. Of course he's only a child, and so his ignoring isn't the best in the world, and he often glances over to see what Lauren is doing, to see if he's paying attention to the fact that he's being ignored. But mostly he just sits there playing in the dirt on the ground in front of him, thinking to himself about how unfair this is.

Of course he was also scared, scared that something would happen and Lauren wouldn't come back. He didn't want that to happen, he needed Lauren, and that's really his biggest problem with him leaving for this stupid "initiation" thing. He didn't understand why Lauren couldn't stay here and never go do anything else, why he couldn't just do the things he'd been taught without some sort of thing he had to go to. It didn't make any sense, and Susan didn't like it.